Bennie Thompson is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district since 1993.
Thompson is a member of the Democratic Party, and he has been the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security since 2019 and from 2007 to 2011.
Thompson was both the first Democrat and the first African American to chair the committee and he is the dean of Mississippi’s congressional delegation.
Bennie Thompson Place Of Birth
Where was Bennie Thompson born? Thompson was born in Bolton, Mississippi and he has been a lifelong resident at his place of birth (Bolton), near Jackson.
Thompson attended Hinds County public schools before earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Tougaloo College in 1968 and an Master of Science in educational administration from Jackson State University in 1973.
Thompson was a schoolteacher in Madison, Mississippi and served as an alderman (1969–1973) and then mayor of Bolton (1973–1980) before being elected to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, on which he served from 1980 to 1993.
Thompson began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College – a private historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi.